Quotes from Paul Watson

I don't think you really have to retire from what you do.

The sealing industry is dying.

It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew.

Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.

People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?

When I was born, there were three billion people on the planet.

I'm not pessimistic about anything.

I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.'

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don't look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese.

We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity.

Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues.

We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, 'You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline?' Everybody would look at you like you're completely out of your mind.

Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.

We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly.

There's no rest when you're on planetary duty.

I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity.

You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life.

I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now.

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.

The most powerful weapon in the world, as far as I'm concerned, is the camera.

Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that.

Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.